Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist is set to get a modern makeover from Disney with the help of Ice Cube and Tommy Kail, the director of the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton.
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Logline kept under wraps, but based on the Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist.
Tim Story, who helmed Ride Along and Ride Along 2, is expected to return to the director’s chair. Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi are penning the script based on the story by Greg Coolidge.
Ice Cube is going straight outta Dickens.
A wealthy real estate mogul is shown a path to redemption by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future in a contemporary re-imagining of A Christmas Carol.
The film, which takes place during the famed 1992 Los Angeles riots, centers on an ex-criminal that must save his son after a gang of thugs break into his office with the intent on stealing an expensive amount of platinum.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as high-concept comedy set in Colorado.
Logline: A former child art prodigy, and second generation petty thief, arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to change his plans and commit one last big job for the syndicate who financed his early release.
Logline: In a world where failed attempts at genetic perfection leave every new generation dead by age 25, Rhine Ellery is kidnapped and sold to a sadistic scientist as a bride for his son. To escape her gilded cage, she must earn her husband’s love before his father discovers that humanity’s cure is coursing through her veins.
Logline: In a world where failed attempts at genetic perfection leave every new generation dead by age 25, Rhine Ellery is kidnapped and sold to a sadistic scientist as a bride for his son. To escape her gilded cage, she must earn her husband’s love before his father discovers that humanity’s cure is coursing through her veins.
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Logline: Story centers on a pack of feral teenage boys who choose the wrong girl to be the victim of their final “initiation,” because in reality, she has chosen them.
